Post-Marxism, Representation, and Resistance in Tony Kushner's Political Plays
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Description
The book is a study of the politics in Tony Kushner's political plays as representing the New Left politics that speaks for the unrepresented or under-represented people.
This book studies the complex and varied nuances of Kushner's political thought that he has written into four of Kushner's 'political' plays. Arnab Ray argues that Kushner's work conveys the imminent ideological emptiness in the world as the millennium approached its end while simultaneously exemplifying the hope brought on by the turn of a new millennium. Thus, this book positions Kushner as a playwright of hope as he illumines a path that he thinks may lead to a better future. However, as Kushner himself has said, it is “a teleology, not a guarantee.” Ray argues that it is in Kushner's post-Marxist Leftist political thought that the teleology lies.
Table of Contents
About the Author
Introduction
1. American Drama After World War II
2. Kushner's Work and His Dramaturgy
3. Theorizing Kushner: Life, Ideas, and Politics
4. A Bright Room Called Day: The Nazis and America
5. Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Parts I & II: A Postcommunist Liberatory Millenarian Vision
6. Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness: Dissolution of Communism
7. Homebody/Kabul: Reconfiguring the World in the New Millennium
8. Kushner's Post-Marxist Leftist Politics in the Postcommunist Era
Works Cited
Product details
| Published | Feb 05 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9798216259718 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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